tare

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɛː/, /tɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: tear

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-Germanic *tarwō (compare Dutch tarwe (“wheat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dŕ̥Hweh₂ (compare Lithuanian dirvà (“field”), Russian дере́вня (derévnja, “village, thorp”), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread”), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “panic grass, millet”), Welsh drewg (“darnel”)).

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
2. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
3. (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
   • Matthew 13:25 (KJV)

     But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

   • 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:

     I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin.

• slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
• hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
• smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة‎ (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ‎ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).[1]

tare (plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.

• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)

1. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
   • 1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, p. 86,

     he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.

2. (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
   • 2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,

     Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.

• In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

• (to set a zero value): zero

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

Borrowed from Japanese 垂れ.

tare (uncountable)

1. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

• tare at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tare in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, rate, tear, tera-

From Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح‎ (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ‎ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

• IPA^(key): /taʁ/

tare f (plural tares)

1. (archaic) deficiency
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. tare (empty weight)

• tarer

• “tare” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• âtre, rate, raté

• Rhymes: -are

tare f

1. plural of tara

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, trae

tare

1. Rōmaji transcription of たれ

• thar, thare, taare

From Old English *taru, from Proto-Germanic *tarwō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːr(ə)/

tare (plural tares or taren)

1. Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
2. The seed of vetch, especially referring to something worthless.
3. (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

• English: tare
• Scots: tare, teer, tere

• “tā̆r(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

From Latin tālem, accusative of tālis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great / excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.re]

tare m or f or n (plural tari)

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid

   Pâinea este foarte tare.

   The bread is very hard.

2. (of a person) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
4. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
5. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
6. (colloquial) cool

• (hard): dur
• (strong): puternic

• întări

tare

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very

• atare
• cutare

tare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tarar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tarar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tarar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tarar.